THE VOICE 0F 1THE TURT1LE by George Tauchman "I prefer the company 0f peasants because t.hey have not been educated sufficiently to reasori incorrectiy." Michel deMontaigne (1533-1592) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumnulates in the form of inert facts." Henry Adams. wiii Rogessi-ieeI 4U i vis nutLAn ing.>bLPUi i educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in." 1 thoroughly agree on all these quotations on learnin', but as a high school teacher I must hasten to explain that I look upon education as the people's path to salvation from the deep-rooted, dangerous stupidity of the human race as a whole. Religions seem to breed as much hate and violence as anything. (Note Northern Ireland, Jonestown, the Hundred Years' War, etc., etc.) The problem lies in just what is your particular definition and/or concept of what is ideaily mean- t by the word "education". Officially, the height of education is reached when one at- tains a doctorate of philosophy, but in my travels 1 have met a few Ph.D.'s who were not only ignorant, but uncivilized as well. The concept of a Dr. Strangelove is not implausible to me. 0f the hundreds 0f Ph.D.'s in Canada, how many have won the Pulitzer Prize or the Nobel Prize or even designed a bet- ter mousetrap?! Thomas Edison didn't even have a high school diploma and Leonardo daVinci, that fantastically ver- satile super-genlus of the Renaissance, sorrowed ail his life that he did not have a university degree! I can just imagine the dozens 0f degree-holding acquaintances and snobs who sneered down their noses at poor, "ignorant" Leonardo. Al that is known of themn today is that they were all pompous nonentities whose names history forgot, but history has en- shrined the bright jewel of Leonardo's genius and spelled his name across the skies of eternity in a dazzling galaxy of stars. One of my readers phoned me from Peterborough recently to tell me that he liked the ideas I expressed in print. Naturally, that instantly qualified him as a well-educated person in my books! In passing, he mentioned that he would ike to write about such things as I do, had he as much education as I. I regret to hear such fine people say such things; it always makes me think they are victims of the "Leonardo syndrome". The world libraries are packed with great works created by men who officialIy had no education in today's generally accepted sense of the word. This does not stop the educated WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1981, PAGE 27 Thne education o Georue Tauchinan S snobs from keeping alive the ignorant tradition of Leonro's aimos nore than Hiter?). S antagonists. Of the dozens of professors I've encountered in Mrs. Xenia Glauder of Santa Monica, California, however, my pursuit of knowledge and wisdom, less than a tenth have writes, "Dear Georgie, you are by far niy favorite columnist impressed me with their wisdom (let alone their genius). One in the whole world. Love, Mother. " And Mr. Edward S professor named Charles Wall in the Faculty of Education at Glauder of the same address wnites, "Just because you're the University of Toronto I will neyer forget. But by and my haif-brother, it doesn't mean 1 shouldn't give an honest l.-rge, 1 have learned an awful lot more from my students opinion of your column; I think it's pute ... (expletive than from the average professor. In university I usually deleted), Love, Ed." Mr. Vern Lee of Ajax wrote a most - have to learn in spite of the professor rather than because of compliment.ary letter, but mock modesty prevents me from him. going into the details of it. Both Mrs. June Trevor of Ajax I would love to Iearn more from my readers, however. I and Mrs. June Overton of Pickering phoned to say t.hey get a can't see myself the way some see me! 1 would like to see good laugh from my literary hicentiousness. Mr. Giusto myself as slightly wise, witty, and being on the side of the Castelli from Rome, Italy, writes, 'lYou have a sparkling wit, angels, a champion of reasonableness, sweetness and ight, Giorgio. 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